The cost of mailing a first-class letter increased over the weekend, with prices rising from 73 cents to 78 cents per stamp.

The price of first-class Forever stamps increased by 7.4% Sunday, rising from 73 cents to 78 cents. Senior U.S. Postal Service Representative Marti Johnson called the jump a “ra ...

The nearly 4 cent price tag is up 20.2% from the Mint’s 2023 report, when a penny cost just over 3 cents. Cost of the nickel Each nickel costs nearly 14 cents ($0.1378) to make and distribute.

There are currently a whopping 114 billion pennies in circulation in the US, according to the agency. Two bipartisan bills to end penny production have been introduced in Congress so far this session.

New legislation - the Common Cents Act ... (D-Calif.), and from the Audit of the United States Mint’s Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2023, made public on Dec. 10, ...

The nickel, worth 5 cents, cost about 13.78 cents to produce in the 2024 fiscal year, according to the U.S. Mint’s annual report, a jump of 19.4 percent from the year before.

The penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. Here’s how much the US spends on minting its other coins ... 5.5 cents each 4. $20 bills: 6 cents each 5. $50 bills: 5.6 cents each 6. $100 bills: 9.4 cents ...